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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Anglican Archbishop: Anti-Semitism ‘embedded’ in British culture

Anti-Semitism is “deeply embedded” in British culture, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said.

“We’ve seen a very sharp rise over the last year or so in anti-Semitic expression. It is absolutely intolerable,” Welby told a gathering of Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim leaders at his Lambeth Palace residence in London on Thursday (May 19).

“It’s deeply imbedded in so much of our culture in this country, as is racism,” added the archbishop, who is the spiritual leader of the world’s 75 million Anglicans.